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Post by Volktales on Oct 18, 2014 11:43:52 GMT -8
This thread idea stolen directly from The Samba... When I bought my 1972 Dorper, I found all kinds of stuff inside...  Lots of the usual bus stuff including old garbage bags, maps, metric conversion charts, etc. A few useful tools, batteries that expired in 1986, a camping receipt from PEI, early bug spray, a broken cheapo tire gauge made in Chicago, ancient comet cleanser. My favourite is the '70's pink emergency toilet paper roll! Also while cleaning out the bus, I found some original Optimus fuel canisters for a long gone stove. Or was it? Looking close at this original cabinet one day, revealed a secret...  I didn't know the top was removable. And here is what was inside!  The original Optimus stove was there all along! Complete with a funky gun shaped lighter too. Also in this secret compartment was the missing curtains for the front windshield for night use too. Made my day... |
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Post by magikbus on Oct 18, 2014 15:27:24 GMT -8
Still got the stove Russ?
Stan
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Post by Volktales on Oct 18, 2014 15:32:50 GMT -8
Oh yes! I never throw away anything!
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Post by magikbus on Oct 18, 2014 15:38:28 GMT -8
My propane stove is going up for sale when I get around to cleaning it up and will be replaced by an Optimus 111 kerosene stove. We never do any cooking inside the bus, too much smelly stuff that seems to last and last.
Stan
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Post by busaddict on Oct 18, 2014 23:36:51 GMT -8
After much debate I pulled the original propane stove out of my '74 Westfalia some years ago. We too, along with many other people, like to cook outside on a picnic table. Last year I was given this propane cooker by a good friend who picked it up at a church sale for a few dollars. It doesn't have any name or identifiable markings that I can see, looks like a Primus though. Nice unit, here it is making Spam soup and Kraft Dinner at Long Beach. Mmmmm, much tastier than it sounds. We'd set up camp and then decided we weren't going to go food shopping, enter my "emergency" trip food box stocked with Spam and KD etc. Fun times. Campervan Spam Soup Recipe - a handful of potatoes cut into chunks - 1 onion chopped up - a few carrots - 1 Oxo cube - 1 can of Spam or equivalent luncheon meat diced Braze the onions until brown. Boil the potatoes first for about 10 minutes in a few cups of water (whatever looks good,) then add the Oxo cube chopped carrots and onion. cook for another 10 minutes. Add the Spam a few minutes before you're ready to serve as it's already cooked. For extra flavour, fry up the Spam before hand. Attachments:
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Post by PICTUP on Oct 19, 2014 7:00:08 GMT -8
YUM!! I think this belongs in the camping section too, Tom. How about creating a Camping Recipes thread? Personally I have found washing this kind of food down with hot "Tang" to be the ticket. I know, it sounds gross, but don't knock it until you have tried it when you are "out in the field", as it were  |
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Post by magikbus on Oct 19, 2014 7:37:07 GMT -8
Hot tang? What a hoot! You should have seen my wife's face when I suggested we try "hot" tang. Don't think that's going to happen.
Stan
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